Which Off-Broadway venue hosted Cats: The Jellicle Ball in 2024?

The Perelman Performing Arts Center hosted Cats: The Jellicle Ball in 2024.

The production premiered at PAC NYC, as the center is commonly branded, in Lower Manhattan during its inaugural 2023–24 season. Its 2024 engagement ran from June 13 through July 14 and introduced audiences to a radically reworked version of Webber’s Cats.

Rather than presenting a conventional cat-themed revival, the production placed the action within Harlem’s queer ballroom culture. The Jellicle gathering became a competitive ball, with runway presentation, vogue-inspired movement and performers representing a community built around chosen family, performance and self-expression.

The venue is sometimes confused with a Broadway theatre because the production later transferred to Broadway. The original 2024 engagement, however, was at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, a multidisciplinary arts complex opened near the World Trade Center site.